Principal Site Reliability Engineer
Job in
Scottsdale, Maricopa County, Arizona, 85250, USA
Listed on 2026-10-09
Listing for:
Prosum IT Staffing
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-10-09
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
SRE/Site Reliability, Systems Engineer, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Scottsdale,
AZ85250
Employment Type:
Perm
Job Number: 25926
Remote Options:
Hybrid
Job Description Principal Site Reliability Engineer
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced Principal Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to provide technical leadership across highly available, large-scale production environments. This role combines software engineering, systems engineering, cloud infrastructure, automation, Dev Ops, and production reliability to improve the resilience, scalability, performance, observability, and operational health of critical services.
The Principal SRE will partner closely with Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Dev Ops, and other technology teams to ensure reliability and operational readiness are incorporated throughout the software development lifecycle.
This is a senior individual contributor position with enterprise-level influence. The successful candidate will identify systemic reliability risks, establish technical direction, influence architecture and engineering practices, and help improve reliability capabilities across multiple engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), software engineering, automation, and Dev Ops principles to improve how production services are built, tested, deployed, monitored, operated, and recovered.
Establish and improve Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), error budgets, availability metrics, and service-health measurements.
Design and enhance observability capabilities using metrics, logging, distributed tracing, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and service-health instrumentation.
Drive continuous improvement across CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), cloud infrastructure, deployment practices, automation, testing, incident management, capacity planning, resilience, disaster recovery, and operational readiness.
Analyze production environments to identify systemic reliability risks, performance bottlenecks, recurring incidents, and opportunities for automation.
Translate production and operational experience into improvements in application code, architecture, infrastructure, tooling, automation, and engineering standards.
Partner with Software Engineering teams to incorporate reliability, resiliency, scalability, performance, observability, recoverability, and operational readiness throughout the development lifecycle.
Lead or participate in production incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, service restoration, and blameless post-incident reviews.
Provide technical leadership during critical production incidents and help improve incident response, escalation procedures, service restoration, and sustainable on-call practices.
Reduce operational toil and manual intervention through software development, scripting, automation, reusable tooling, platforms, and engineering patterns.
Apply data-driven analysis, experimentation, and engineering principles to validate assumptions and guide technical decisions.
Establish and influence enterprise-level SRE, Dev Ops, cloud, reliability, and operational engineering standards and best practices.
Mentor engineers and technical leaders while promoting knowledge sharing and sustainable engineering capabilities across the organization.
Operate independently across complex, business-critical reliability and infrastructure challenges.
Required Qualifications
15+ years of relevant professional experience in one or more of the following areas:
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Software Engineering Systems Engineering Cloud Engineering Platform Engineering Dev Ops Engineering Infrastructure Engineering Systems Architecture Strong experience with software development and/or scripting using one or more modern programming languages.
Advanced understanding of software engineering principles, distributed systems, production environments, troubleshooting, automation, and observability.
Experience designing, supporting, or improving highly available, scalable production systems and distributed applications.
Experience with public cloud platforms and cloud-native architectures, preferably AWS.Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix systems, networking, infrastructure, application architecture, and production operations.
Demonstrated experience diagnosing complex production issues and implementing sustainable technical solutions.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting,…
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